Bulletin n. 3/2008
February 2009
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Pommerolle Marie-Emmanuelle, Siméant Johanna
    Voix africaines au Forum social mondial de Nairobi. Les chemins transnationaux des militantismes africains
    in Cultures & Conflits , numero 70, été ,  2008 ,  129-149
    The World Social Forum taking place in Nairobi in 2007 gave an opportunity to analyze, through a collective survey, what was at stake with the localization, both geographic and symbolic, of a social forum in Africa. Our study shows how African activists managed to participate in the WSF in Nairobi and what are the conflicts around the right to talk about, for, and from, Africa. These questions are linked. Indeed, in an alterglobal space which seeks to obscure them, it is important to think about the hierarchies, the conflicts, or even quite simply the division of labour within transnational activism. A first part is dedicated to the material conditions of attendance at the WSF and how they were translated into debates about the representativeness of this Forum. A second part underlines the international division of activist work in Africa, creating tensions which are masked or translated into ideological oppositions. A third part focuses on the ways identities and legitimate claims to speak in the name of Africa were built in this space of tensions. Full text available on-line: http://www.conflits.org/index13423.html
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